Since Riven got deeper into the cave he encountered more and more dangerous threats. “HAHA…even though I just learned to use my energy a little I feels such a big difference already, almost as everything here fears me. Not just that it also seems like my energy even scares them of not being able to run away! No wonder Lorken and all the others are so strong!”

  The more time he spends here fighting the better his energy control becomes, but energy isn’t infinite but trainable. Not much later he realized that most of his soul energy is used. “I think it’s better if I try to find a way out…”

  As he tried to find out, not using his energy he got un unsettling feeling. “Is someone watching me?” He questions himself with a nervous expression. Even though he activated the Merrik eyes to see in the dark he couldn’t spot anyone. “Maybe it’s just because it’s a creepy cave…” But then something popped into his mind, there wasn’t any proof. He still used a little bit of his energy to maybe feel someone, no success.

  Little later he found a similar path, from here on he would know the way out.

  BAM!

  He fell to the ground losing consciousness.

  “W-where am I?” His blurry vision got better, he only sees that he is a completely different area of the cave. He notices some people in front of him, all thin and pale, like they haven’t seen the sun since an eternity. “H-how could I not spot them? I even used my soul energy…”

  They looked at him like he was a different species, the more he looked around he noticed something. They are eating. They’re eating other humans. Riven seeing this absolutely lost it “AAAHHHH…no, no…your assholes aren’t going to eat me! I am not letting this happen!” He tried to free himself from being tied made the cannibals call someone.

  STOMP, STOMP, STOMP…

  A big man came in; he looks like the leader. Unlike the others he is very tall, even much taller than Lorken and extremely muscular.

  BAM!

  The big guy was sending a punch with his full force towards Riven, right before he manages to untie himself and dodge.

  In the time he was knocked out he had time to regenerate his soul energy a little. But suddenly the big guy was letting out also his. It was still surpassing Riven′s.

  Right before he could’ve even reacted, he gets attack from behind from other cannibals “How the fuck they sneaked behind me? Was I so distracted?” But Riven got an idea “Wait, those are probably pretty equal to some primal humans, aren’t they?”

  Not only did he use his energy, but he also used his Merrik eyes. The eyes themselves don’t have any soul energy, but primal cannibals are scared easily with them.

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  He turned around attacking all the small cannibals, most of them got scared away and some even died. Right as he wanted to turn around, he got a strong punch into his stomach, but something was weird.

  Not the punch itself but rather the leader of the group, he got bigger. “The fuck is that? It seems as he loads his soul energy to into making him taller and even more muscular!”

  Riven tried to get up quickly but still got hit again, now he not only needed to use his Merrik eyes but also his tendril arm. With his tendril arm he grabbed a cannibal and used him as a shield, he was instantly dead.

  Next, he grabbed the leader’s foot and pulled himself to him and just a short moment where the leader needs time to react Riven kicked with his full power into his balls.

  The Cannibal leader screams in agony using his full energy letting out every ounce he has left over. While charging up he became almost as twice as tall, massive as Lorken!” Riven begins run away through this weird underground village killing multiple cannibals to get through, in just a few minutes almost every cannibal died due Riven. But he still hasn’t found the exit.

  Besides that, he still couldn’t use the tendril arm, it still needs time to fully recover. While running through the village like he lost his mind he thinks “Wait a second, those guys who sneaked behind me. I wasn’t distracted! They used a trick! Those didn’t spread out their energy; They hid it!”

  Even though the leader has many advantages like physical or knowing the village blindly he isn’t smart at all. Riven; he could maybe hide his soul’s energy.

  As he heard the heavy and loud footsteps, feeling the aura Riven tried to hide it. Even though he was just hiding behind a rock the leader just walked past him, without noticing a thing.

  Riven decided to follow the leader, hoping he maybe goes to the exit. But unfortunately, almost instantly afterwards he couldn’t hide his energy back anymore. Was detectable now, to his luck the leader really went to the exit of the village “YES! It worked! If I just can sneak past him, I can escape!” In just a quick moment he got hit again, maybe the leader wasn’t that dumb. He waited until Riven felt safe and then attacked.

  The leader was so charged up that Riven even flew through the air. “Dang it…you’re not that dumb, don’t you?”

  Tuck.

  Seems like Riven fell for same trick twice, almost all small cannibals died, not all. But this time he wasn’t that unconscious, just a little. He few minutes later he woke up, above a fire. “They really want to eat me, hehe…come on…come on. I need a plan…” But Riven isn’t the type of guy who can force himself to plan, the more he forces himself to get one the lower are the chances. He is more the type of guy that does what spontaneously gets into his head and sounds good.

  He grabs the neck of the leader with his tendril arm, even though the leader tries to tear it apart it Riven doesn’t stops resisting. The leader slowly seems as if he has no energy left because Riven also chokes him.

  As the big guy goes on his knees he pulls him towards the fire under him.

  As the head almost enters the fire, the hairs slowly catching fire, the rest of the cannibals unfortunately put out the fire but Riven doesn’t stops choking, he even uses his almost all his useable soul energy to threaten all the cannibals, including the leader.

  Time later the cannibals felt so threatened they even untied Riven, the leader was choked to death.

  The cannibals were letting him go, a little time later he found the exit of the cave. He looked at the sky “It’s almost midnight, ridiculous how long I was in there…”

  With all his wounds he went to the old lady’s house, Veylan sat on the veranda with a worried face. He instantly ran towards him asking if everything is okay and carried him into the house “I would’ve come to help but she told me to not, you really did it!”

  Later in the old woman asked, “You managed to use your energy, don’t you?” After he explained everything that happened, she said “Hehe…hiding your energy is going to be the next thing you are going to learn…”